Development of JSP

• Java Server Pages were developed as a response to Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP). The main differences are that ASP only runs on Microsoft IIS and Personal Web Servers, and JSP has user-defined tags.

• Development dates: (Note that JSP is built on top of servlets)

  • Servlet 2.1 Jan. 99
  • JSP 1.0 June 99
  • Source code released to Apache to develop Tomcat server November 99
  • Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 (J2EE1.2) December 99
  • Look for further development of tag library in 00.

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